â off List! Enkaustikos offers a variety of waxes useful for encaustic painters, as well as artists working in other media. Unlike wax mediums, these waxes do not contain Damar Resin. Carnauba Wax â Enkaustikos Carnauba Wax is a light, pale yellow wax from the leaves of a palm tree. Add this wax to encaustic paint to raise its melting point. Using Carnauba Wax will result in a harder, more durable paint film. Adding too much of this wax may result in cracking of the paint.
Spindle turning is turning wood with its grain parallel to the lathe beds, the wood is usually held. between centers. Cuts are made parallel to the bed or down hill, never uphill. âThe cutting edge of the skew chisel must be sharp. Everything else is a personal preference.â3 Skews. coming in various shapes.
The greater the hone angle of the wheel, the sharper the angle of the V and the thicker the piece of glass it is designed to cut. The hone angle on most hand-held glass cutters is 120Â°, though wheels are made as sharp as 154Â° for cutting glass as thick as 0.5 inches (13 mm). Their main drawback is that wheels with sharper hone angles will become dull more quickly than their more obtuse counterparts.